16 Gestures  16 thesis presentations represented through photographs. A typology of the Yale graphic design student.

10-2008

Aesthetics of Terror  This website was designed for a traveling art exhibit. The user can move the large shapes around to hide and reveal the text and images on the page. With Wolasi Konu and Yeju Choi.

12-2008

What Can We Do?  Exhibition design for "Climate Change: The Threat to Life and a New Energy Future" at the American Museum of Natural History. This interactive information graphic presents a variety of actions people can take to lessen their impact on the environment.

07-2008

Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Youth  A booklet to help transgender youth understand their rights and fight discriminatory policies in their schools.

08-2003

Chess Pieces  A redesign of chess pieces. At any point in the game, each piece takes on the form of a map of all of its available moves. If it can't move anywhere, it becomes invisible. Here, an entire game is played out.

09-2008

Curly Hair, Glasses, One Woman Only  I searched on stock photography websites for people with whom I share similar physical characteristics and merged them with photos I took of myself. The title comes from the search terms I used to find these photographs.

04-2008

Defining the Terrortory: Exploring the Definitions of Terrorism  An investigation of the nature of self-definition. There is no universally accepted definition of the word terrorism. Even within the United States, each government agency uses a slightly different definition. The book employs camouflage patterns drawn from the U.S. military and from 'known terrorist groups' to create a visual metaphor for the contradictions that lie at the heart of this country’s foreign policy.

10-2007

Design by Billy Collins  A visual interpretation of the poem "Design" by Billy Collins.

10-2007

Fostoria, OH  In the summer of 1986, the image of Jesus appeared on the side of a soybean oil tank in Fostoria, OH. I interviewed people who visited the site to see what they could recall about what they saw and experienced.

02-2008

How the Republicans Stole Christmas  Sample poster design for the book.

10-2005

I Heart 80s TV  A new opening credit sequence created from the beloved TV shows of my youth.

04-2008

Invention for 900 Hands  The two books each present the full text of a New York Times article about the making of a Steinway grand piano. One version uses color to indicate different categories of information, the other uses typeface. Each book was overprinted four times, the overlapping typefaces or colors indicating the overlapping subject matter.

11-2008

Lage Raho Tara Bahen  A short biography of my classmate Tara Kelton.

09-2007

Made In Taiwan  An exploration of the global origins of the clothes in my closet.

11-2007

Make A Wish  An investigation of the themes of belief and ritual.

03-2008

Moving Between  My graphic design MFA thesis book. As designers take up disparate and multiple roles, they are also seeking more complex engagement from their audiences. In my design practice, as I navigate my continuing explorations into identity, performance, translation, and transformation, I consider this complexity.

05-2009

My Closet  An exploration of the personal origins of the clothes in my closet.

10-2007

Nautica look book  A look book for the Nautica Jeans Company's fall 2005 line.

06-2005

New Haven Open/Closed  Designed as signage for the Yale graphic design studio space. The sign shows when certain local businesses and attractions are open and closed, over the course of the day. When something is about to close, the image starts to fade, and when it closes, the image goes to black like a storefront sign turning off for the night.

04-2007

One Chair 100 Ways  How many uses are there for an everyday object? I photographed myself using a chair in a different way each day for 100 days.

02-2009

Rachel Roy look book  Rachel Roy's spring 2005 look book.

09-2004

RVDL  A series of three booklets exploring the life, work, and influences of Rudy Van der Lans, creator of Emigre magazine.

03-2007

The Small World Problem  A PSA about the hazards of social networking.

03-2008

Untranslatability  Translators have a set of six methods they use when a word or phrase is not directly translatable. I created an icon for each of these methods using a combination of mathematical symbols and proofreaders' marks. The icons are then applied to various types of translations.

11-2006

Tell Me the Whole Truth: School Supplies to Get Real Sex Education  A kit parents and students can use that outlines steps they can take to meet with educators around the issue of comprehensive safe sex education.

09-2003

Yale Painting MFA 2008 exhibition  Signage for the Yale painting MFA 2008 final exibition. The letters are made out of art canvases. With Tara Kelton.

05-2008

Yale Symphony Orchestra  Poster series for the Yale Symphony Orchestra's fall 2007 season. With Mary Voorhees.

10-2007

Art and Innovation in the 1920s  Program for a symposium. With Chris Sleboda.

04-2008